Many Scientific Breakthroughs In Our Time

Is it ethical to develop and grow human organs? Things like the invention of the light bulb, which provides lights for billions. The invention of vaccines, which bring viruses to eradication. and now we have the ability to develop and grow human organs in laboratories which would help supply the ever-lasting need for organs in the world. Now in a slightly different note, before growing the actual organ, the development of tissue is needed. This involves a fundamental thing in this process called a stem cell. A stem cell can be extracted by getting an Embryos “umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, and many other nonembryonic tissues”. (Pfizer). This would mean scientist would have to effectively stop the embryo from further developing since the extraction of the stem cells causes the embryos untimely death. Which would beg to ask the question; Is it ethical to develop and grow human organs?

To start off with, the use of stem cells for the development of organs have a major ethical problem. The problem being the death of embryos caused by the extraction of the stem cells. Pfizer talks about how the use of stem cells does lead to the “Termination” of the embryo. Pfizer also includes one of the main reasons why most people consider stem cell research so controversial. They include “Opponents of stem cell research based on the believe that because life begins at conception”. Night Light a Internationally Christian based group would agree with this statement. Since 1997 Night Light has been getting embryos from laboratories and instead of killing them for stem cells , they have been using the frozen embryos to help give people the opportunity to be parents. Nightlight has over 50 years’ experience in adoptions and over 900 embryo adoptions. Which would be 900 lives created.

The United Kingdom has a limit for how long embryos can be frozen. According to The Fertility & Gynecology Academy, the longest that a embryo can be kept frozen in a lab is 10 years. Which in those 10 years the decision of whether the embryo is given away depends on what the embryo might be used for. Though most of the samples are collected and killed for research purposes like developing organs which even if successful would still require stem cells and would keep this ethical dilemma alive since you need stem cells to grow the organs. In South Africa like many other countries, embryos are used to give people the opportunity to be a parent.

This is usually what happens rather than donating an embryo to a lab to be killed. This could lead to scientist benefiting from embryos. “It is predatory pseudoscience of the worst kind” (Dr. McAlpine) Who is a pediatric doctor who works for the good of children in south Africa. He also talks about how the labs and centers that store the embryos for personal gain. Dr McAlpine goes on to talk about how “Private stem cell banks are loathe to share their data” Even though they are collecting data and information about embryos which will be terminated to make stem cells. They are not even sharing the data which would help the expansion on the knowledge for the greater good research for the development of regenerative tissues or organs. This just causes the ethical dilemma to fester like the wound it is.

Thus, the argument of taking embryos and extracting stem cells from this would be wrong. The Embryos are of course donated by people willing to donate their embryos. This of course is all up to the person who is donating the embryo. This would now fall into the problem of people having the right to what they want with themselves. A person cannot be stopped if they want to donate an embryo. Places like Iran for example you would expect them to be tough on stem cells and ban the use of research and development of stem cells. But it is quite the contrary. Aneesh Ramen a Egypt born CNN correspondent who has graduated from Harvard Collage and spent most of his time in Iran. “Scientists here are testing treatments on mice for everything from heart disease to multiple sclerosis.” Yes, they are conducting animal testing, but they are using the embryos for the greater good. This is one of the many possibilities that stem cells have.

Is it ethical to develop and grow human organs? People within our time have seen many scientific break throughs. Things like the invention of the light bulb, which provides lights for billions. The invention of vaccines, which bring viruses to eradication. and now we have the ability to develop and grow human organs in laboratories which would help supply the ever-lasting need for organs in the world. Now in a slightly different note, before growing the actual organ, the development of tissue is needed. This involves a fundamental thing in this process called a stem cell. A stem cell can be extracted by getting an Embryos “umbilical cord blood, bone marrow, and many other nonembryonic tissues”. (Pfizer). This would mean scientist would have to effectively stop the embryo from further developing since the extraction of the stem cells causes the embryos untimely death. Which would beg to ask the question; Is it ethical to develop and grow human organs?

To start off with, the use of stem cells for the development of organs have a major ethical problem. The problem being the death of embryos caused by the extraction of the stem cells. Pfizer talks about how the use of stem cells does lead to the “Termination” of the embryo. Pfizer also includes one of the main reasons why most people consider stem cell research so controversial. They include “Opponents of stem cell research based on the believe that because life begins at conception”. Night Light a Internationally Christian based group would agree with this statement. Since 1997 Night Light has been getting embryos from laboratories and instead of killing them for stem cells , they have been using the frozen embryos to help give people the opportunity to be parents. Nightlight has over 50 years’ experience in adoptions and over 900 embryo adoptions. Which would be 900 lives created.

The United Kingdom has a limit for how long embryos can be frozen. According to The Fertility & Gynecology Academy, the longest that a embryo can be kept frozen in a lab is 10 years. Which in those 10 years the decision of whether the embryo is given away depends on what the embryo might be used for. Though most of the samples are collected and killed for research purposes like developing organs which even if successful would still require stem cells and would keep this ethical dilemma alive since you need stem cells to grow the organs. In South Africa like many other countries, embryos are used to give people the opportunity to be a parent. This is usually what happens rather than donating an embryo to a lab to be killed. This could lead to scientist benefiting from embryos. “It is predatory pseudoscience of the worst kind”.

Who is a pediatric doctor who works for the good of children in south Africa. He also talks about how the labs and centers that store the embryos for personal gain. Dr McAlpine goes on to talk about how “Private stem cell banks are loathe to share their data” Even though they are collecting data and information about embryos which will be terminated to make stem cells. They are not even sharing the data which would help the expansion on the knowledge for the greater good research for the development of regenerative tissues or organs. This just causes the ethical dilemma to fester like the wound it is. Thus, the argument of taking embryos and extracting stem cells from this would be wrong.

The Embryos are of course donated by people willing to donate their embryos. This of course is all up to the person who is donating the embryo. This would now fall into the problem of people having the right to what they want with themselves. A person cannot be stopped if they want to donate an embryo. Places like Iran for example you would expect them to be tough on stem cells and ban the use of research and development of stem cells. But it is quite the contrary. Aneesh Ramen a Egypt born CNN correspondent who has graduated from Harvard Collage and spent most of his time in Iran. “Scientists here are testing treatments on mice for everything from heart disease to multiple sclerosis.” Yes, they are conducting animal testing, but they are using the embryos for the greater good. This is one of the many possibilities that stem cells have.